There are some popular sketchy fonts available that are great for grungy and hand-drawn designs and illustrations. You can create a Graphic Style and easily apply the style to other editable fonts!

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In this tutorial, we'll explain how to create an old paper, some fancy paper treatments and a feather pen. These effects are all achieved with layer modes and gradients. Let's get started!

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This tutorial will cover a lot of ground (that may or may not be a bad play on words :) ). We will use both Illustrator and Photoshop to create a cool winter background. The focus will be showing you how to create custom patterns in Illustrator and custom brushes from these patterns in Photoshop.

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In this tutorial we want to detail how to create text along a path in an interesting way and apply it to a common application. Although the circular logo has been used forever, it can still be effective if done well, while mixing in some modern design. In this case, we are going to use some vector art, then grunge it up. This will give it that worn beach look I’m going for. I hope you enjoy it, here we go…

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Follow these steps in Adobe Illustrator to create your very own super cute fuzzy monster character. We’ll be working with the basic shapes to start, then use a variety of gradients to add depth. We can then finish it off with some detailed fur effects to really lift the design from the screen.

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Pathfinder is an excellent tool in Illustrator to build objects in a simple and fast way. In this tutorial, learn how to create a box cutter knife by using geometric forms, the Pathfinder tools, and adding volume and highlights with the use of gradients.


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This tutorial is about drawing with the Pen tool. The Pen tool is Illustrator’s workhorse. It takes time to learn how to use, but it is great once you figure it out. The best way to learn the Pen Tool is to trace over sketches. Before we get to that, this is a basic overview of the pen tool.

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Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you need to take a poor-quality scan of a logo and make it into something scaleable and clean? Sure, you could recreate the logo from the ground up, but that’s time-consuming and labour-intensive. Whatwe're going to present here is a technique you can use to tidy up a noisy logo and make it into a vector graphic using Adobe Illustrator, quickly and effectively.

This tutorial assumes you have Illustrator. Other vector graphics programs may differ, so we can’t guarantee it’ll work the same way.

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Let's learn how to make a unique RSS feed icon. This tutorial requires a familiarity with Adobe Illustrator's basic tools as we'll use the gradient mesh tool and make light use of Illustrators mapping feature.

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Create impressionistic, infinitely-scalable vector clouds with the Gradient Mesh tool. It's easy to start, but it takes a lot of time to master. There are several ways of approaching the Gradient Mesh - this one may be new to you. Let's get started!

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